wh5 = who, what, where, when and why. The five basic questions that are the structure of any story. Explored in "Who says what, where, when and and Why: Context in Conversation." An introduction to Sociolinguistics through Conversation Analysis. wh5 is the blogsite of the book published 2008 by Nanundo-Phoenix, Tokyo.

Friday, March 18, 2016

Economist on Trump, Chomsky on Trump: Trump as Hitler

Journalist: Possibly the most commonly asked question these days
is why Trump is getting so much support.

Editor: The Economist published a graph correlating his support rising each
time he made an outrageous statement. Media theory that sensation outsells good news?

Journalist: If he became president he would be an international
embarrassment.

Editor: But more of a worry is the reason why people are getting behind him.

Journalist: People believe he’s rich so he would fix the
economy? Ha. He says things that other politicians are too afraid to say in
public? Many of the American public secretly believe the outrageous things he
says?

Editor: All of the above. Triumph of emotion over reason.

_________

Voice-over

Many meticulous predictions
of how a Trump presidency would play out are disturbing. Snippets from Noam
Chomsky:

"Trump is
appealing primarily to less educated white sectors of the population, lower
middle class and working class, people who are angry, frustrated, frightened,
bitter that they have been cast by the wayside… Hitler’s hostility drove
forward a historic process in which resentment against a disenchanted world
found deliverance in the ecstatic escape of unreason."